pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write() causing deadlock

2006-11-15 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi Andrew MM experts, We are looking at a customer situation (on 2.6.16-based distro) - where system becomes almost useless while running some java stress tests. Root cause seems to be taking a pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write () after calling prepare_write. I am wondering 1) Why

Re: pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write() causing deadlock

2006-11-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:57:45 -0800 Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are looking at a customer situation (on 2.6.16-based distro) - where system becomes almost useless while running some java stress tests. Root cause seems to be taking a pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write